Who We Are

Founder & Executive Director

Travis Puntarelli

Travis Puntarelli founded the School of Bardic Arts to give storytelling, folk music, and folklore a lasting home in the Rogue Valley. He studied ethnomusicology at Indiana University, holds a Liberal Arts degree from Southern Oregon University, and has spent more than twenty years working in folk music, storytelling, and performance.

Since 2021, Travis has directed Songbirds Music, the K–3 classroom program he took over from Rogue World Music, which reached more than 400 students in the 2025–26 school year. He also leads the Bardic Fellowship’s study of myth, ancient music theory, and traditional song, and organizes the School’s community arts collaborations. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.